Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even though the track-standard gauge all the way-had been laid, no train had made the estimated 30-hour trip from Salta to Antofagasta. That would wait until next week, when, on the 27th anniversary of its first construction, the new Trans-Andean railway would be officially inaugurated. At the ceremony, no one would cheer louder than the desert miners of northern Chile, who want to swap their copper and nitrates for Argentina's grain, vegetables and beef...
Every weekday morning a Cautions Upperclassman dives underground, grabs a train for Central Square, and then immediately turns around and grabs another one back. Despite his actions, his motives are simple, and such a circuitous route accomplishes a definite purpose. For with the present acute side-street congestion, the subterranean gambit is the safest way to cross Massachusetts Avenue and still keep a Bursar's Card intact. By entering the kiosk opposite Hayes Bickford and emerging in the shadow of Lehman Hall the Cautions Upperclassman neatly sidesteps all traffic, and loses no shoelaces in the bargain. A problem any time...
...program is designed to provide men with a broader background of study, train them for teaching courses in General Education, and to help them study social problems...
...Nankow Pass, where last November the turreted guns of an armored train had dominated the gateway to Kalgan, there was now a long hospital train waiting to pick up the wounded from a battle raging to the east, at Yenching. Lieut. General Lu Yingling and Major General Li Ming-ting, two of Fu's best field commanders, were dead. Red cavalry marauders moved freely in adjacent Jehol province (see cut). In Kalgan, staff officers muttered: "The Communists keep growing stronger. Nothing we can do seems to stop them...
...across Canada, housewives girded themselves for a war on high prices. They went from door to door, getting signatures by the thousands on petitions to the government for more drastic controls. There was talk of a "prices train" which would start from the West, pick up delegates along the way, and roll into Ottawa with a mighty force of embattled consumers...